The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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CHINESE DOCTORS are among the latest inno-
vations in Texas.
The steel tubing made in Cleveland for the
Lick telescope has reached California. 1t is 80
feet long and feet in diameter.
REV. Dr. THEODORE L. CUTLER, of Brooklyn,
has visited Saratoga Springs regularly for fo-ty
summers, and has preached 1862 sermons there.
THERE is young man In Hartford who has
had the broken bone of one of his legs mended
with a silver rivet, and will soon be out on
clutches.
| A WOMAN of Mulberry Grove, H., tried to get
out a warrant of arrest against neighbors who
found her house on fire and broke open the door
| to put out the flames.
| IN the seventeenth century, according tc the
records of Doncaster, England, the proper
| length of pole to hold a duckng-stool for
scolds was sixteen yards.
MANUFACTURERS of fire brick say that the
only reliable way to distinguish good clay is by
| tasting If it tastes salty, it is genuine fire
clay; If fiat and dull it is worthless for fire
brick.
WHILE George Lindley was working on the
banks Of the Sangamon river, near Decatur, Ill,
he pulled hollow log from the water and found
in it catfish three feet and six inches long
which weighed forty two pounds.
A MASSIVE MONUMENT to the late Chief JUS
tice fancy is being erected in Baltimore by Will
lam 7. Walters of that city. The statue is n du-
plicate of the famous bronze figure of fancy,
by Rinehart in the State capitol grounds at An
napols, Nd
BY the improved method of welding by cleo
tricity broken bar of metal can be easily re-
| united or bars of different metals welded to-
gether, and those metals which previously re-
sisted Welding most Strenuously are now joined
| with ease, while those previously easily welded
remain the same by the new process.
AN EVANGELIST, known at camp meetings as
Weeping Joe,' is holding revivals in Indiana
county, Pennsylvania. In the midst of a ser
mon the other day he suddenly paused, leaped
out of an open window, and a moment after
strikingly illustrate a point of his discourse
He weeps copiously when he speaks.
CHARLES NJ. mullen and Michael Dempsey.
tramps, built fire in an old gravel pit near
Sonerville. n. j., aud lay down beside it to
| sleep. Both men were drunk. Toward morn
ing Dempsey was awakened by the groans of
his companion and found that Mullen had rolled
over into the fire. One hand was burned off,
his side was horribly burned, and he died soon
afterward.
ARcHDEAcoN FARRAR says that Cruikshank,
the artist, offered $500 for proof of violent
crime committed by total abstainer from in
toxicantS, and that the money remains I'M
claimed to-day. The Archdeacon says that he
will give the same amount for proof of any one
case, "either in the church or out of it, where
drunkenness has been cured without total alb
Stinence."
Mr.. WATSON, the American traveller thus de-
scribes an annual ceremony at the court of Da-
honey: THE king sits on the platform with
his subjects below him. Men are then put,
bound hand and foot into a basket, which runs
down slide and discharges them among the
| mob. who at once proceed to chop them into
r Watson ed Init he
king explained to him that the victims were of
fensive political partisans.'
A MARE belonging to j. W. Stone, of Petaluma,
Cal, struck her fore leg just above the ankle
with her hind foot. burying the cork of her shoe
under the skin. She fell and while rolling help
leSsly around was discovered by the owners
son. He tried to free the hind foot by pulling
at the fastened leg, but hadn t sufficient strength
to accomplish it. Finally the mare ripped the
skin off the fore leg down to the heel of the foot.
taking strip off six inches long by four wide.
The sinews of her leg were not injured.
BUNcoxBE COUNTY, North Carolina, was named
after Col. Alfred Buncombe, of Buncombe Hall,
near Edenton, who came of fine old English
family. He raised, equipped, and led a regi-
ment in the revolutionary war. Fifty years ago
the Representative from that county in the
State Legislature made dorid speech on a
local ISSUE which he innOceutly explained was
especially intended for Buncombe. Thus origi-
mated an expression which has now a permanent
place In the language.
A Mr.. SEYMOUR and some members of his
family recently entered a railway train at
Hitchin, Eng, and In the farther corner of the
compartment which they occupied was a man
apparently asleep; but hardly was the train in
motion when they discovered that he was dead
They at once tried to communicate with the
guard for the purpose of stopping the train, but
the cord which connected the carriages with the
van broke. and thew were obliged to travel for
nearly an hour with the corpse.
ONE of the ugliest of the fnny tribe is the
toadfish, a shiny creature not even an enthusi-
asst could venture to touch. The enormous
mouth extends in a semi-circe from side to side
wedge-shaped body. The colors are i-defined
and impress one with their dirtiness adding to
the disagreeabe effect. Repulsive looking as
the toadfish is it is said to manifest more care
for its young than is usual among fishes re-
deeming its appearance by it's moral char
acter.
THE Saxons of old believed that VOLTS head
placed under the pillow caused the unhealthy to
sleep sweetly, and that VOLTS flesh well dress
ed and sodden, given to eat, cured devils sick
ness and an i'll sight" With the Saxons il was
a common practice with sufferers from diseases
of the joints to take live fox, seethe him until
the bones alone were left, adding oil during the
seething, and to use the liquid thus obtained as
q bath. This remedy was deemed as efficacious
the eating of lions flesh as a cure for those
suffering from apparitions or lions suet for
sore ears.
THE Clinton. H., Public says: Last Friday
Mr. Bushrod Monson's COW choked herself with
a cabbage stalk, and for hours they worked with
the animal to bring her relief. Poor old bossy
was about on her last gasp, when a passer-by
suggested that they build high pen around the
COW and make her jump out. The pen was
built, and after several sharp prods with a pitch.
fork. the leaped over the barrier In the
effort to jump the cow swallowed the cabbage
stalk, and was relieved. Half an hour after
ward she was quietly nipping the grass and was
all right"
THERE is considerable stir among the congre-
cation of Trinity Episcopal Church in St. Louis
and much opposition on the proposition to in
troduce confessional boxes into the church dur
ing the mission services shortly to be held by
the Fathers of the Order of St. John the
Evangelist, which in turn is an offshoot of the
Anglican Society, known as the Cowley Broth
ers II is said that the only Episcopal Church
in this country in which the confessional box ia
used, is st. Ignatius Church. New York CITY. of
which the Rev. Arthur Richie is rector unless
there is one at Ascension Church, Chicago
where he formerly was.
THE Hawaiian sugar planters are said 10
be greatly exercised over Claus Spreckels' beet
sugar scheme. At a recent meeting they de-
cided that If large beet sugar refinery was
started In San Francisco they would have to
find a new market and 1t was commended that
to send raw sugar to New York would never
pay Hence several of the largest planters ad-